Free Professional Development Webinar: Teachers as Change Agents: Teaching and Advocating for ELLs/MLLs through Cultural Reciprocity

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH | 2:00 – 3:30 pm via Zoom

Presented by Guofang Li, Ph.D.

In the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the pre-existing educational inequities confronted by students and families of non-dominant backgrounds. More than ever, educators need to better understand the languages, literacies, cultures, and other assets that children from non-dominant backgrounds bring to their schooling and learn to create a sociocultural environment that capitalizes on their repertoire of cultural knowledge. Building on the experiences and insights of pre-and in-service teachers in the U.S. and Canada, this professional development workshop will introduce a culturally reciprocal approach to instruction that effectively supports ELLs/MLLs’ unique learning needs.

Specifically, this workshop will help educators:

  1. Understand the diversity and inequity confronting ELLs/MLLs
  2. Develop an asset-based perspective to ELLs/MLLs’ diverse cultural knowledge
  3. Learn about the three processes of the pedagogy of cultural reciprocity
  4. Acquire concrete strategies and approaches to conduct culturally reciprocal teaching
  5. Gain confidence to become change agents for ELLs/MLLs

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PRESENTER:
Guofang Li, Ph.D.
Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Transnational/Global Perspectives of Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth
University of British Columbia

Guofang Li’s program of research aims to improve the life success of immigrant and minority students by addressing the cultural, linguistic, instructional, and structural barriers in their literacy learning and academic achievement both in school and at home, pre- and in-service teacher preparation, and current language and educational policy and practice in globalized contexts. Her recent books include Superdiversity and Teacher Education (2021, Routledge), Languages, Identities, Power and Cross-Cultural Pedagogies in Transnational Literacy Education (2019, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press), and Educating Chinese-heritage Students in the Global-Local Nexus: Identities, Challenges, and Opportunities (2017, Routledge).

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